Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose ….

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I car….

It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the p….

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it..

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?.

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful..

And what was it about the dark that made her question things she’d never questioned before, in the day..

...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when….

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and t….

It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend..

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it..

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense..

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle ….

Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa. "Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa. "I should li….

Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and ….

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens throug….

I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I ….

Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there would finally be peace in….

I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious..

We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many pe….

...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission..